“The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
“The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread.”
— Margaret Atwood, book The Heart Goes Last
Source: The Heart Goes Last
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